1848
Feb 15, Sarah Roberts was barred from a white school in Boston.

1939
Feb 15, Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premiered in NYC.


1976
Feb 15, In Los Angeles Elizabeth McKeown (67) was beaten, raped and strangled. A young homicide detective found her body 3 days later in a car trunk. In 2009 John Floyd Thomas Jr. (72), an insurance claims adjuster, was arrested based on DNA evidence. A series of attacks stopped in 1978, the year Thomas went to prison for the rape of a Pasadena

1984
Feb 15, Ethel Merman (76), singer, actress (Kid Million), died in her sleep.

1999
Feb 15,Carole Sund (42), Julie Sund (15) and SilvinaPelosso were last seen at the Cedar Lodge motel in Portal, Ca. The trio were visiting the area from Eureka. Carole Sund's wallet and credit cards were found in Modesto on Feb 19. The FBI acknowledged Feb 21 that the disappearance was being treated as a kidnapping and a $250,000 reward was offered. Their rented Pontiac was found burned near Long Barn in Tuolemne County on Mar 18 and 2 burned bodies were found in the trunk. Cary Stayner, motel maintenance man, later admitted to the murders and faced trial in 2002. Stayner was convicted on Aug 26 and was sentenced to death Dec 12.

2007
Feb 15, Nadia Abdel Hafez, an Egyptian woman (37), died of bird flu in a Cairo

2010
Feb 15, Jeanne M. Holm, the first woman to rise to the rank of general in the US Air Force and the first woman to become a two-star general in any US armed service, died in Annapolis, Md.



2010
Feb 15, In Brazil Julia Lira, Rio's 7-year-old Carnival drum corps queen, danced at the front of the samba parade. She didn't like the cameras that homed in on her, and reacted as any child might, by having a good cry.

2014 Feb 15, In California a woman and her 4 children were killed in their SUV near Riverdale after a driver in a minivan failed to yield at a stop sign.


2014
Feb 15, In Israel two gunmen on a motorcycle killed a man as he drove near Tel Aviv’s beachfront. Police believed it was a gangland attack.